Advances in optical technologies, together with the rapidly rising demand
for network bandwidth, are fueling an increasing amount of research in the
field of optical networks. Optical communication has become a promising
networking choice to meet ever-increasing demand on bandwidth from the
emerging bandwidth-intensive computing/communication applications, such as
data browsing in the world wide web, video conferencing, e-commerce,
video-on-demand services, and high-speed interconnection of parallel/
distributed systems. This workshop will focus on fundamental challenges
and issues on using optics in two converging areas: parallel/distributed
computing and communications. Optics offer many benefits for interconnecting
large numbers of processing elements, but may require us to rethink how we
build parallel/distributed computing systems and communication networks,
and how we design algorithms and write applications. Fully exploring
the capabilities of optical networks requires an interdisciplinary effort.
Our goal is to bring together leading researchers in this field of research
to discuss state-of-the-art solutions as well as future trends in these
rapidly-developing areas.

TOPICS OF INTEREST:

Topics of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to:

Optical interconnects

Parallel optical architectures

Reconfigurable architectures

Routing in optical networks

Collective communication in optical networks

Optical WDM and TDM networks

Quality of Service in optical networks

Network performance

Protocols for optical networks

Algorithms and applications exploiting

PAPER SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES:

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished papers not exceeding
15 single-spaced pages including figures and references. A clearly marked
appendix can be used for supporting material including proofs, simulation
results, diagrams, etc. Papers should be submitted electronically in
postscript or PDF format to Prof. Yuanyuan Yang (yang@ece.sunysb.edu)
by April 15, 2001. Authors should make sure that the submission can be
viewed using ghostscript or the ``acroread'' tool and will print on
a LETTER sized printer that uses standard letter size paper (8.5" x 11").
If electronic submission is not possible, please send four copies of the
full manuscript to Prof. Yuanyuan Yang. All submitted papers will be reviewed
by at least three referees in accordance with the established standard.
The accepted papers will be published as Workshop Proceedings by the
IEEE Computer Society Press and will be distributed at ICPP2001. The page
limitation for final papers is 8 pages (up to two additional pages
can be purchased).

Selected papers from the Workshop will appear in a Special Issue
of the SPIE/Kluwer Optical Networks Magazine.